1. N-COUNT 設備;設施
Facilities are buildings, pieces of equipment, or services that are provided for a particular purpose.
What recreational facilities are now available?...
現在有些什麽娛樂設施?
The problem lies in getting patients to a medical facility as soon as possible.
問題在於要把病人盡快送至醫院。
2. N-COUNT (組織提供的)附加服務,特色服務;(機器的)功能
A facility is something such as an additional service provided by an organization or an extra feature on a machine which is useful but not essential.
It is very useful to have an overdraft facility...
有透支功能用處很大。
One of the new models has the facility to reproduce speech as well as text.
新型號中有壹款具備復讀和文本復制的功能。
3. N-COUNT 天資;才能;天賦
If you have a facility for something, for example learning a language, you find it easy to do.
He and Marcia shared a facility for languages...
他和馬西婭都有語言天賦。
Smell is a very basic sense but humans have lost much of the facility to use it properly.
嗅覺是壹種非常基本的官能,但人類已經喪失了恰當使用這種官能的大部分能力。